NYT: Reach of Mexico's drug cartels

Mexican drug trafficking cartels “represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States,” according to a recent Justice Department report. The cartels have waged increasingly violent battles with one another, as well as with the Mexican government, which began an aggressive crackdown in 2006. 

The NYT presents, once again, a very instructive interactive map of the main drug cartels, their main areas of control in Mexico (see figure below), and where they are present in the United States. The latter is very impressive. They have at least 3 identified trading points in Hawaii and even 1 in Alaska!! An example of multinational supply chain management...

There is also a related article that goes about analyzing the role of undercover agents that work in Mexico to try to find leads to the cartels' kingpins.